Tiburcio Carias Andino

Tiburcio Carias Andino (5 March 1876-23 December 1969) was President of Honduras from 17 to 30 April 1924 (succeeding Francisco Bueso and preceding Vicente Tosta) and from 1 February 1933 to 1 January 1949 (succeeding Vicente Mejia Colindres and preceding Juan Manuel Galvez). He was a member of the National Party of Honduras, and he was the country's last caudillo.

Biography
Tiburcio Carias Andino was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 1876, and he founded the National Party of Honduras in 1918 and served in the 1924 revolution as a general. He exercised governmental power during the presidency of fellow National politician Miguel Paz Barahona, and he served as President of the National Congress from 1926 to 1929 and from 1930 to 1931. In 1933, he assumed office as President of Honduras, and he would remain in power for almost 16 years. He was initially a peaceful and democratic ruler, but he crushed an El Salvador-backed liberal uprising. The economic situation was horrific during the 1930s due to the Great Depression, and he gained the support of banana companies by opposing strikes and other instances of labor unrest. In 1935, he outlawed the Communist Party of Honduras, and he also cracked down on the opposition press. In 1936 and 1937, further failed uprisings continued to weaken the National Party's opponents, and Andino became an ally of Jorge Ubico of Guatemala, Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez of El Salvador, and Anastasio Somoza Garcia of Nicaragua. However, in 1944, Ubico and Martinez were deposed in popular revolts, and, while Carias crushed an uprising that same year, the United States successfully pressured him to retire in 1948. In 1954, he launched a failed presidential bid, and he died in 1969 at the age of 93.